He talked about how much better Brisbane was now than it was five years ago, how awesome his metro tunnel is going to be and that voters shouldn't risk Labor.

If you have followed any of the coverage of the council election, you could have got up and done it for him.

Rod Harding discussed "the fact" Graham Quirk has done nothing while he has been Lord Mayor, used all the correct "change" buzzwords that have been the theme of his campaign and spruiked his light rail scheme.

The most entertaining part of the entire thing was when Wirth answered a question about development with a pre-prepared speech on medicinal marijuana.

The least interesting part of the debate was when Quirk and Harding read versions of the same thing they have been saying since this campaign began.

There was no debate, there was no scrutiny, there was no interaction between the candidates, there was just 90 minutes of people saying the same thing they have been saying since the campaigning began ... what seems like three lifetimes ago.

And all this said to a room of people who probably know how they're going to vote anyway.

It would have been nice to hear something different, something inspiring, something new, or just something other than saying "the other candidate is rubbish. Vote for me."

*By the way, there's heaps more pieces of metal in the dome, it's just the counting and the debate were having a benzodiazepine effect.